Initial Data for Binary Systems
 
Center for Gravitational Wave Physics
Penn State University
March 29-30, 2002
 
Organizers: Greg Cook (Wake Forest) & Pablo Laguna (Penn State)
The goal of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for numerical relativists working on initial data sets representing astrophysically relevant binary systems to (1) present their latest results and (2) discuss open questions and future directions.  Possible topics of discussion include nonconformally-flat solutions, the construction of evolutionary sequences, improving agreement with post-Newtonian results, boundary conditions for constructing black hole binaries, and the incorporation of post-Newtonian metric information.


Schedule

Friday, March 29 
Chair: Pablo Laguna
8:30 - 9:00   Greg Cook   "Toward Astrophysical Black-Hole Binaries"
9:00 - 10:00   Discussion  
10:00 - 10:30   Break  
10:30 - 11:00   Richard Matzner   "What, If Anything, is an ISCO?"
11:00 - 12:00   Discussion    
12:00 - 13:30   Lunch  
Chair:   Manuela Campanelli    
13:30 - 14:00   Peter Diener   "Kerr-Schild and Post-Newtonian binary black hole initial data"
14:00 - 15:00   Discussion    
15:00 - 15:30   Break    
15:30 - 16:00   Philippe Grandclement   "Binary Black Holes in Circular Orbits: A Helical Killing Vector Approach"
16:00 - 17:00   Discussion    


Schedule  

Saturday, March 30  
Chair:   Jorge Pullin    
8:30 - 9:00   Bala Iyer   "Gravitational Waves from Inspiral Compact Binaries: PN Waveforms and Resummed Extensions"
9:00 - 10:00   Discussion    
10:00 - 10:30   Break    
10:30 - 11:00   Thomas Baumgarte   "Recycling Initial Data in Evolution Calculations: The Quasi-Adiabatic Approach to Binary Inspiral"
11:00 - 12:00   Discussion    
12:00 - 13:30   Lunch    
Chair:   Greg Cook    
13:30 - 14:00   Koji Uryu   "Equilibria of binary neutron stars as a definition of ISCO and a source of gravitational waves"
14:00 - 15:00   Discussion    
15:00 - 15:30   Break    
15:30 - 16:00   Olivier Sarbach     "Kerr-Schild Type of Initial Data for Binary Black Holes in the Close Limit"
16:00 - 17:00   Discussion    


Participants:

Abhay   Ashtekar   Penn State
Thomas   Baumgarte   Bowdoin
Bernd   Bruegmann   Albert Einstein Institute
Manuela   Campanelli   Texas - Brownsville
Greg   Cook   Wake Forest
Peter   Diener   Albert Einstein Institute 
Sam   Finn   Penn State
David   Fiske   University of Maryland
Simonetta   Frittelli   Duquesne University
David   Garrison   Penn State
Philippe Grandclement  Northwestern
Bala   Iyer   Raman Research Institute 
Bernard   Kelly   Penn State
Badri   Krishnan   Penn State
Pablo   Laguna   Penn State
Carlos   Lousto   Texas - Brownsville 
Pedro   Maronetti   Illinois
Richard   Matzner   Texas - Austin
Mark   Miller   Washington University
Claudia   Moreno   Penn State
Dario   Nunez   Penn State
Harald   Pfeiffer   Cornell
Jorge   Pullin   Louisiana State
Olivier   Sarbach   Louisiana State
Deirdre   Shoemaker   Penn State
Ken   Smith   Penn State
Amber   Stuver   Penn State
Wolfgang   Tichy   Albert Einstein Institute
Koji   Uryu   Milwaukee
Jacek   Wisniewski   Penn State